I would NEVER leave you dry! This is a BIG juicy update to keep everyone sated for the weekend (I may have time to update, but I might be way busy/not sure about computer access). I bet no one's even awake, but then it will be like Christmas morning tomorrow!
Round 2, Part 2
The rest of the chapters!
Share Bear
Amy and I ended up at the same party! Not only that, we were seated together! This made things a lot more relaxed. It was the two of us, along with 2 sisters at a time. I liked this set up! The conversations don’t particularly stand out, but I remember mostly enjoying myself! UNTIL…this one sister came over. Who had absolutely no facial expressions. Did not communicate emotion whatsoever. I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, maybe she had just gotten botox?!?!?! It wasn’t only me, because I asked Amy later and she thought the same thing! So weird! Not that she was mean (maybe she was nervous), but it was so strange! This was the sister that dropped us off on the house tour (Amy and I got to go together!), and picked us up from it at the end. I didn’t want to let this one sister influence my impression of the house as a whole, but I wished we had ended on a better note! The actual house’s interior structure was pretty cool though.
Secret Bear
Ok I had an INCREDIBLE time here! One of the girls and I hit it off, I felt like we had known each other for years! I wanted her to be my big if I joined this house
(a "lil" early to think that, but it was my rush wish!!)! Just an awesome, cool girl. Really with it, on the same wavelength, totally had a great back-and-forth animated, convo… you know the kind where you’re like, “omg! I totally know what you mean! EXACTLY! Blah blah blah,” but it doesn’t come off as ditzy because you two are so in-synch?! Seriously she was like my sorority soulmate. The time FLEW, and I didn’t want to leave (we kind of lingered towards the back of the group being funneled to the door)…however this may have backfired on me…
Bedtime Bear
This house and Secret Bear are the greatest distance apart of any two houses on my campus. Like WAY far. Through much sludge, snow, and ice. We have 15 minutes between parties, and there was this shuttle bus system (ha, this might give away the school, but please don’t say) which was absolutely ineffective. The bus didn’t stop in front of the houses and maintain a continuous loop, but had 4 stops and would do them only in a certain order, once at each stop (so like, what if you got on the bus at one stop and needed to go to a house that the bus just came from? Out of luck. Stupid system.) So I get out of Secret Bear and need to get to the bus stop that’s listed for that house (which is conveniently over 100 yards down the street). I get there. I RUN there. A PX posted there informs me and the other PNMs with me that we missed it by ~30 seconds. ARGH.
So this other girl and I set off on the perilous journey ahead of us. Seriously, it was a treacherous trail. And I didn’t want to be cut from rush for being absent/late to a party. Oh dear god. And I really liked the Bedtime Bears too!!
This lovely PNM and I call our PXs and tell them to make sure Bedtime Bears know we are on our way. We got there maybe 20+ minutes into the round. I felt awful. Embarassed, apologetic, frustrated, and worried, with my fingers and nose about to fall off, and the rest of myself sweating because we RAN/slid down the slushy hills to get there! I honestly don’t remember much from this house because I was so flustered. This was an unusual feeling for me because it usually takes A LOT to get me upset. I didn’t know how this would affect my chances here, because every sister I talked to was REALLY cool. Cool in conversation, but cool enough to forgive some tardy PNMs? I guess I would find out the next day…
(This part of the story actually really made me sad to write. I know we always say “You’ll end up where you’re meant to!” and I LOVE the girls who ended up being my sisters—def the place for me!--, but I can’t help but think that things that were out of my control made me slip through the cracks or seem like an undesirable PNM at this chapter.)
Funshine Bear
Ok, after the fiasco with the commute from Secret to Bedtime, Funshine Bear totally cheered me up (how apropos)! LOVED every sister I met, my 2 tour guides were so memorable and totally “me.” I vividly remember standing in one of the rooms thinking how I wished I WERE these 2 sisters, who already knew of their secure place in this wonderful house (does anyone sympathize with this feeling)! One of the tour guides was so put-together and polished, she had khaki slacks on with a chartreuse/lime green silk ribbon used as a belt—I thought that was so cool! The other tour guide was so animated and slightly sarcastic and seemed really fun. I remember in this room she said she was the social chair and talked about events, and I just WISHED I could go to these events! I remember tons of shirts with letters laid across the beds and hoping that in a few days I could wear those shirts! I could see myself flinging down my books after class and shooting the breeze with my sisters in one of these cozy and inviting rooms! I think I had a permasmile
during the entire tour! I felt so comfortable here, but still felt that I needed to make sure they remembered me. I loved them, but I worried if the feelings were reciprocal (after all, I had tried to primp and recover a bit from the last party, but I still felt like an exhausted mess). Would it be unrequited sorority love?
Wish Bear
Ok, the sister I talked to at this house was like my twin! We seriously looked so much alike! This was an interesting rotation: twin girl stayed with me the throughout the entire round, minus the house tour, and it was the 2nd sister who came over that would rotate. Every time a new sister came over she would comment on how alike we looked! Awesome! I hoped this meant that they could see me meshing well in the chapter!! Again, I remember thinking these girls were big partiers (from a slideshow they showed that had many of their chapter’s flower/mascot covering many hands, hmm.), yet their recruitment chair was so poised, proper, and eloquent! I could definitely see myself hitting it off with her/hanging out. I remember leaving this house with a good feeling, thinking that I could see myself being friends with a good number of sisters in the house!
At the end of this round, I ranked 6 chapters as #1, with
#2 Share
#3 Love-a-Lot
#4 Good Luck (I felt a little bad about trying to cut Kristen's legacy chapter, but we had already decided we didn't care about ending up at the same place or not.)